07/18/2016

Many would argue that the main goal of literature, like most other forms of art, is to entertain. After all, we’re frequently so bogged down with the stresses and struggles of real life that we rely on these creative efforts to generate enriched escapism in which we become and interact with drastically dissimilar people in…

Jordan Blum has an MFA in fiction, and he is currently teaching at various colleges. He's the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Bookends Review, an online creative arts journal. On his downtime, he composes music, fiction, and poetry while also working as a music journalist. He writes for Popmatters, The Big Takeover, and Rock Society Magazine, among others.

10/10/2013

Hell isn’t just other people. Janice Lee’s gift is lyricizing the intersection between the cerebral and emotional, and in Damnation, the fourth book by her I’ve read, the canvas of her metaphysical exploration shifts in bursts. Told from multiple perspectives, ekphrasis becomes distant confessional inspired by the broody films of Bela Tarr. There’s a cinematic…

Peter Tieryas Liu is the author of Amazon best-seller, Watering Heaven — which was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor Int’l Short Story Award — Bald New World, and The Wingless. He has a variety of work published in places like the Evergreen Review, Gargoyle, New Letters, and Rain Taxi. Follow him at tieryas.wordpress.com.